The Saint Paul Hotels English Garden Receives Blooming Saint Paul Award

Saint Paul, Minn. (January 2015) The Saint Paul Hotels 6,500-square-foot English garden has received an Outstanding Gardening Advocate Award from Blooming Saint Paul.

Blooming Saint Pauls Outstanding Gardening Advocate award is given to an individual or group whose actions have been exemplary in promoting and supporting gardening efforts in Saint Paul and the Blooming Saint Paul awards program over the last ten years. Blooming Saint Paul, a cooperative initiative created to beautify the Citys urban environment, combines the efforts of many local organizations, City departments, and community members to create a more vibrant, more vital, more natural environment.

The Saint Paul Hotels garden is planned and maintained year around by Sara Orvik, the hotels full-time horticulturalist. Orvik has masterminded the evolution of Saint Pauls best-loved downtown garden for 15 of the gardens 20 years.

We are delighted that Blooming Saint Paul has recognized The Saint Paul Hotels garden and horticulturalist Sara Orvik with this special award, said Ken Boyles, The Saint Paul Hotel General Manager. The garden is a beloved backdrop for countless prom and wedding photos and often-admired masterpiece of horticultural planning,

Background

The Saint Paul Hotels award-winning, 6,500-square-foot, English garden has provided an urban oasis of year-round natural beauty in downtown Saint Paul since 1994. While the hotels English garden includes a variety of evergreens, including juniper, yew, and euonymus shrubs, the gardens prime season is from April to October each year, when thousands of flowers join the garden-scape, filling the Rice Park area with color and fragrance.

Sara Orvik has been The Saint Paul Hotels full-time Horticulturalist since 1999, planning and maintaining one of the best-known and best-loved urban gardens in the Minnesota. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Horticulture with an emphasis in Floriculture from the University of Minnesota, but she credits most of her passion for gardening to growing up on a Minnesota farm. Orviks work with The Saint Paul Hotels English garden has received numerous awards, including the Golden Bloom Award from the City of St. Paul and the St. Paul Garden Club for excellence in business and institutional gardening.

The hotels English Garden is a landmark in St. Pauls downtown cultural corridor, located within view of such notable St. Paul attractions as the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Landmark Center, the downtown St. Paul Public Library, the Xcel Energy Center, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Diners in the Hotels acclaimed Saint Paul Grill restaurant enjoy panoramic views of the English garden through a wall of windows.

The Saint Paul Hotel, a member of the Historic Hotels of America and recipient of countless hospitality industry awards and honors, is located at 350 Market Street on Rice Park in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. For additional information, please call 651-292-9292 or 1-800-292-9292, or visit www.saintpaulhotel.com. The Saint Paul Hotel is managed by Morrissey Hospitality Companies (www.morrisseyhospitality.com).